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Inner Vision : an Exploration of Art and the Brain by Semir Zeki is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Inner Vision : an Exploration of Art and the Brain about?
What is it that makes a work of art appear to us as beautiful? How do external form and internal perception coalesce to create the distinctive aesthetic pleasures we look to find in the visual arts? In __Inner Vision__, one of the founders of visual neuroscience, Semir Zeki, offers the first attempt to apply the science of vision to painting and sculpture, revealing how the conception, execution, and appreciation of the visual arts are all shaped by the anatomy of the brain. Using a range of examples from artists including Rembrandt, Vermeer, Magritte, Mondrian, and Picasso, Zeki takes the reader on an illuminating tour of the way the brain sees, showing how its visual processing shapes art and our response to it. Vision, he writes, is designed to gather knowledge about the world around us, breaking down visual images into their basic components. He describes in fascinating detail how different areas of the brain respond to the basic visual elements, such as color, form, line, and motion, which are also basic elements of art. He further argues that all visual art is expressed through the brain and, whether the artist realizes it or not, must therefore mirror the workings of the bra
Who reads Inner Vision : an Exploration of Art and the Brain?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Semir Zeki
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780198505198
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Medical, Art, Psychology
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5 (10 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14